by FOOL | Jan 25, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction
I listened to The Island as an e-audiobook on BorrowBox, not realising it was Book 2 of Ragnar Jónasson’s Hidden Iceland trilogy, featuring Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Having said that, it still worked as a standalone novel, and because it was...
by FOOL | Jan 2, 2026 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Historical
During a cold snap in November, we chose ‘Winter’ as our reading theme for December, agreeing this could encompass anything from Scandi crime to a book that was set in winter, or just had a wintery-sounding title. And at our meeting just before Christmas,...
by FOOL | Dec 13, 2025 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction
Several of us in Oundle Crime enjoy the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). So far there are eight books, with The Hallmarked Man being the latest. Since the first novel – The Cuckoo’s Calling – was published in 2013 we’ve followed the...
by FOOL | Dec 7, 2025 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Named ‘Best Book of the Summer’ by several major US newspapers, El Dorado Drive is the latest novel by Megan Abbott, an American crime writer who has a number of well-received books to her name. Published earlier this year, it’s a tense, dark story of menace, murder,...
by FOOL | Nov 29, 2025 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Here are ten books we enjoyed reading in November and would recommend – several of them brand new – with four of them earning 5-Stars. As usual, books available from Oundle Library and/or BorrowBox are marked with an asterisk. Although some of the newest...
by FOOL | Nov 2, 2025 | Action Thriller, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Our reading theme in October was books with a one-word title. However, recognising that these might not be super-easy to find, we agreed that we could disregard the word ‘The’ if necessary. Obviously, we read anything else we fancied as well, and the books we...
